Anthony Negus – Conductor

Anthony Negus

Longborough Ring Cycle - 2013

...But the driving force has been the conductor, Anthony Negus, for whom the epithet "the Reggie Goodall of our time" doesn’t seem too strong.

Richard Morrison - The Times

Anthony Negus is Music Director of Longborough Festival Opera and gained international authority as a conductor and coach of Wagner’s works. At Longborough he conducted the acclaimed Ring Cycle in 2013 and in 2015 will conduct Tristan und Isolde.

Born in Buckingham, Anthony studied at the Royal College of Music, the London Opera Centre and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a member of the music staff in Wuppertal and Hamburg from 1970 to 1974 and musical assistant at Bayreuth 1972 to 1973.

Anthony was on the Music Staff of Welsh National Opera from 1976 until 2011 and conducted many operas for them.